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"MAI? No thanks...!" On-Line Library
(The library is under new management.)
Thanks to Global Trade Watch the January 1997 draft text of the Multilateral
Agreement on Investment (MAI), which is being negotiated by the member states
of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was made
public in spring 1997. Further draft versions have been made available during
1997 by other sources, the last one, dated February 1998, finally by the OECD
itself.
A Look at the MAI
- The January 1997 draft of the agreement in HTML format
- text format of the same draft
(Note: file size is about 335k)
- The May 1997 draft in HTML format was supposed to be at http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/mainewte.htm but has (to my knowledge) not been published in its entirety.
- The October 1997 draft
- text format of the October draft
(Note: file size is about 360k)
- Note: the October draft is essentially the same as the May draft,
except that the footnotes have been removed because many countries
seem to want to keep their specific objections and exceptions confidential...
- The February 1998 draft of the agreement in Adobe Postscript format
- text format of the same draft
(Note: file size is about 265k)
Library Indexes
Links (pro and con)
MAI-NOT mailing list, newsgroup, and web archive
(The mailing list is no longer active but the archive is available.)
- Searchable list archive
"Thank you" to the many people who helped build this "MAI? No thanks...!" On-Line Library!
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the interest of the public good, for educational purposes.
We assume that those who have gone through the trouble of writing anything
on such a thankless topic as the MAI will appreciate that their ideas are
distributed as widely as possible.
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This page was last updated on November 26, 2007